Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Operation Deep Thust - The Battle of Kakstadt, 1979 - part 4

The final (for the moment...) stage of the Kakstadt battle saw us return to the lawn. Sadly the game was cut short by rain but we managed to try more of the mechanisms and take plenty of photos!
Above is a Mirage flying a CAP mission above the front line.

The beasts from the East assembling their forces.

As the owner of a MIG-17 in East German markings it would have been churlish not to lend it to the enemy for the game.

The DDR forces seemed to be expecting trouble from above - here is the SAM Regiment with missiles and radar and just visible at the top left - Paul's splendidly bodged ZSU-23/4 Shilka.

Tanks roll west - covered rather scantily by smoke.

The Shilka again - defending the Commissar.

The commies had a whole battalion of tanks, including these T-55s.

The French had rushed a scanty force to the area - assembled from Solido's finest. In the distance is an AMX-10 with HOT AT missiles. The lump under the camo net is an AMX-13 DCA AA tank. Nearer the camera is 'Petit Claude' - a splendid Simca/Unic 'Sumb' truck rather like the one I had a ride in a couple of years ago.

A closer look at the AMX-10. This was rather broken when bought - the missile tubes are now held on with a subtle blend of wire and superglue.

A squadron of AMX-30 tanks hull down behind the railway.

The Fresco inbound on a bombing run.

The Mirage failing to shoot it down.

At this point the toys were getting wet and both sides retreated indoors.

12 comments:

I just hafta like those wonderful looking Solido toys, and the rest. Intriguing and inspirational though all this is, but, I'll have to savour the bullet, and admire from afar - and maybe (more or less as you suggest) cobble together forces from the stuff I already have.

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I built my first plastic kit in about 1971 (an inevitable Airfix Spitfire IX), and can date my wargaming 'career' back to 1977 (aged 11) when in the company of my friends John and Lee I played a simple game with the Airfix (20mm) tanks we had accumulated. Soon a chance find of a couple of Don Featherstone books in the local library revealed that 'grown-ups' did this sort of thing too! I joined Wargame Developments in 1985 and have attended their annual Conference of Wargamers (COW) since 1990. I have also, together with Bob Cordery, been organising it for the past few years. My main interest has always been WW2, with a side order of various postwar conflicts. I also dabble in earlier periods. I am particularly interested in 'operational' level games.